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   pantomime

   /ˈpantəmʌɪm/

   noun

   • 1. a theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, which involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around Christmas: British "a pantomime villain"
   • 2. a dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.
   • 3. an absurdly exaggerated piece of behaviour: "he made a pantomime of checking his watch"
   • ▪ an absurd or confused situation: "the drive to town was a pantomime"

   verb

   • 1. express or represent by exaggerated mime: "they pantomimed picking up dropped food"

   Word Origin late 16th century (first used in the Latin form and denoting an actor using mime): from French pantomime or Latin pantomimus, from Greek pantomimos ‘imitator of all’ (see panto-, mime).

   Derivatives

   • 1. pantomimic adjective
   • 2. pantomimist noun

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